I would much rather have events like these than run flashpoints everyday. In fact, I think the last time I ran a flashpoint was for hk, lol. As for pvp q pops, they may be a little longer lately compared to servers like pot5, bastion, even harbinger, but it's not that long of a wait. Oh ya, and I fully support cross-server queues but it doesn't sound like they can do it with the hero engine bs.
/toka